European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Olaf Schouten, Jeroen J. Bax, and Don Poldermans

Preoperative cardiac risk assessment in vascular surgery patients: seeing beyond the perioperative period
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 283-284; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm521 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Olav W. Nielsen, Lars Køber, and Christian Torp-Pedersen

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: dangerous, elusive, and difficult
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 285-287; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm597 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harald Becher

Stress echocardiography. What is normal in old people?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 288-289; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm639 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helmut Baumgartner

Neurohormones in valvular heart disease: what can they tell us?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 290-292; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm593 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter M. Nilsson

Is adiponectin and its genetic regulators useful or not for prediction of carotid intima-media thickness and coronary heart disease?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 3, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 293-295; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm608 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mario Togni, Michael Billinger, Stephane Cook, and Otto M. Hess

Septal myectomy: cut, coil, or boil?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 296-298; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm561 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Get checked abstract Ron J.G. Peters, Campbell Joyner, Jean-Pierre Bassand, Rizwan Afzal, Susan Chrolavicius, Shamir R. Mehta, Jonas Oldgren, Lars Wallentin, Andrzej Budaj, Keith A. Fox, and Salim Yusuf for the OASIS-6 investigators

The role of fondaparinux as an adjunct to thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction: a subgroup analysis of the OASIS-6 trial
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 324-331; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm616 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Andrew Whittaker, Jasbir S. Moore, Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera, Suzanne Stevens, and Nilesh J. Samani

Evidence for genetic regulation of endothelial progenitor cells and their role as biological markers of atherosclerotic susceptibility
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 332-338; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm602 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy

Get checked abstract Christophe Tribouilloy, Dan Rusinaru, Haïfa Mahjoub, Vicky Soulière, Franck Lévy, Marcel Peltier, Michel Slama, and Ziad Massy

Prognosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a 5 year prospective population-based study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 22, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 339-347; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm554 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Eric Durand, Elie Mousseaux, Pierre Coste, Rémy Pillière, Olivier Dubourg, Ludovic Trinquart, Gilles Chatellier, Albert Hagège, Michel Desnos, and Antoine Lafont

Non-surgical septal myocardial reduction by coil embolization for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: early and 6 months follow-up
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 348-355; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm632 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology

Get checked abstract José Angel Cabrera, Siew Yen Ho, Vicente Climent, and Damián Sánchez-Quintana

The architecture of the left lateral atrial wall: a particular anatomic region with implications for ablation of atrial fibrillation
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 356-362; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm606 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valvular heart disease

Get checked abstract Andrew J. Kerr, O. Christopher Raffel, Gillian A. Whalley, Irene Zeng, and Ralph A. Stewart

Elevated B-type natriuretic peptide despite normal left ventricular function on rest and exercise stress echocardiography in mitral regurgitation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 363-370; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm553 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Miguel A. Bratos-Pérez, Pedro L. Sánchez, Susana García de Cruz, Eduardo Villacorta, Igor F. Palacios, José M. Fernández-Fernández, Salvatore Di Stefano, Antonio Orduña-Domingo, Yolanda Carrascal, Pedro Mota, Cándido Martín-Luengo, Javier Bermejo, José A. San Roman, Antonio Rodríguez-Torres, and Francisco Fernández-Avilés on behalf of Grupo AORTICA (Grupo de Estudio de la Estenosis Aórtica)

Association between self-replicating calcifying nanoparticles and aortic stenosis: a possible link to valve calcification
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 371-376; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm592 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Imaging

Get checked abstract Jeane M. Tsutsui, Feng Xie, David Cloutier, Saul Kalvaitis, Abdou Elhendy, and Thomas R. Porter

Real-time dobutamine stress myocardial perfusion echocardiography predicts outcome in the elderly
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 6, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 377-385; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm445 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vascular medicine

Get checked abstract Sheila Patel, Allan Flyvbjerg, Michaela Kozàkovà, Jan Frystyk, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim, John R. Petrie, Peter J. Avery, Ele Ferrannini, Mark Walker, and the RISC Investigators

Variation in the ADIPOQ gene promoter is associated with carotid intima media thickness independent of plasma adiponectin levels in healthy subjects
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 15, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 386-393; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm526 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular surgery

Get checked abstract Edward O. McFalls, Herbert B. Ward, Thomas E. Moritz, Fred S. Apple, Steve Goldman, Gordon Pierpont, Greg C. Larsen, Brack Hattler, Kendrick Shunk, Fred Littooy, Steve Santilli, Joseph Rapp, Lizy Thottapurathu, William Krupski, Domenic J. Reda, and William G. Henderson

Predictors and outcomes of a perioperative myocardial infarction following elective vascular surgery in patients with documented coronary artery disease: results of the CARP trial
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 394-401; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm620 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PRECLINICAL RESEARCH

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Get checked abstract Faiez Zannad, Wendy Gattis Stough, Bertram Pitt, John G.F. Cleland, Kirkwood F. Adams, Nancy L. Geller, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Bridget-Anne Kirwan, and Ferenc Follath

Heart failure as an endpoint in heart failure and non-heart failure cardiovascular clinical trials: the need for a consensus definition
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 413-421; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm603 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Carlo Pappone and Vincenzo Santinelli

Remote ablation of accessory pathways
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 24, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 422; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm541 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jirí Widimsky

Otto Klein—the forgotten founder of diagnostic cardiac catheterization
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 10, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 422-423; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm549 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Li Zhang and Balavenkatesh Kanna

A double blind, randomized study on platelet aggregation in patients treated with a daily dose of 150 or 75 mg of clopidogrel for 30 days
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 16, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 423-424; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm551 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicolas von Beckerath, Dirk Sibbing, and Adnan Kastrati

A double blind, randomized study on platelet aggregation in patients treated with a daily dose of 150 or 75 mg of clopidogrel for 30 days: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 16, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 424; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm552 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Edouard Gerbaud, Mathieu Lederlin, and François Laurent

Coronary embolization detected by delayed enhancement MRI
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 4, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 292; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm384 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zhi-Qiang Ying, Ji Ma, and Geng Xu

Giant left atrium
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 4, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 295; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm383 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tina L. Pinto Slottow, Rajbabu Pakala, and Ron Waksman

Serial imaging and histology illustrating the degradation of a bioabsorbable magnesium stent in a porcine coronary artery
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 31, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 314; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm365 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tiago Senra, Afonso Akio Shiozaki, Vera Maria Cury Salemi, and Carlos Eduardo Rochitte

Delayed enhancement by multidetector computed tomography in endomyocardial fibrosis
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 7, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 347; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm372 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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